Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I have never read a novel in which the protagonist searches for someone to take their life. Meet Agnes Maurer, follow her over the course…
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Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay What do sea otters, abalone and sardines have to do with the settling and development of California? What can these creatures reveal about the age-old…
Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Is it inevitable that the sins of fathers be visited upon their sons? Perhaps not, but sons haunted by their fathers is one of the…
I Hear A New World by Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I had to read Alan Moore’s The Great When twice to fully appreciate it. At the time I wasn’t at all familiar with Moore’s body…
The Art of Becoming a Citizen: a memoir by Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay It’s the autumn of 1961 and twenty-four-year-old Gail Godwin is in New York City, living temporarily at the Martha Washington Hotel on East Thirtieth Street.…
Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Honeysuckle is one of the strangest novels I’ve read in a long while, and by strange I mean in the sense of unsettling and rarely…
Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay A fundamental political question lies at the heart of Billionaire Backlash by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee: who makes the rules? Is it individual billionaires…
Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Andrew Burstein
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay It’s fair to say that Thomas Jefferson fascinates historians. The sheer number of biographies of America’s third president is staggering, and one might wonder what…
The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Being thrust into a different place and time is one of the pleasures of reading fiction. Sometimes the place is inside the mind of a…
Truth And Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope by Daniel Ellsberg, Edited by Michael Ellsberg and Jan R. Thomas
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The late Daniel Ellsberg is perhaps the most famous whistle-blower in American history. When he copied and leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 — a…